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Funds to pay annuitants who live longer than expected from statistics.

An abbreviation of “suspcndatur per collum,” let him he hanged by the neck. Words formerly used in England in signing judgment against a prisoner who was to be executed; being written by the judge in the margin of the sheriff’s cal- endar or list opposite the prisoner’s name. 4 Bl. Comm. 403.

The degree where an organism or system is able to be impaired due to a weakness that is inherent in normal operations. See survivability.

To interrupt; to cause to cease for a time; to stay, delay, or hinder; to discontinue temporarily, but with an expectation or purpose of resumption. To forbid a public officer, attorney, or ecclesiastical person from performing his duties or exercising his functions for a more or less definite interval of time. See Insurance Co. v. Aiken, 82 Va. 428; Stack v. O’Hara, 98 Pa. 232; Iteeside v. U. S., 8 Wall. 42, 10 L. Ed. 318; Williston v. Camp, 9 Mont. 88, 22 Pac. 501; Dyer v. Dyer, 17 It. I. 547, 23 Atl. 910; State v. Melvin, 166 Mo. 565, 66 S. W. 534; Poe v. State, 72 Tex. 625, 10 S. W. 732. See SUSPENSION.

The ceiling that is lightweight and hung on wires or cables suspended from the structure overhead.

The person to whom a surrender is made.

One who makes a surrender. Oue who yields up a copyhold estate for the purpose of conveying it

Stealthily or fraudulently done, taken away, or introduced.

N contract is taken unawares, by which sudden confusion or perplexity is created, which renders it proper that a court of equity should relieve the party so surprised. 2 Brown, Ch. 150. Anything which happens without the agen- Q cy or fault of the party affected by it, tend- ing to disturb and confuse the judgment, or to mislead him, and of which the opposite party takes an undue advantage, is in equity a surprise, and one species of fraud for which P relief is granted. Code Ga. 1SS2,

the term applied to a parent who is not a natural parent of the child but assumes the role of.